Fragment of an account relating to the apomoira, the tax on vineyard produce, recording monthly sums in bronze money with the exchange surcharge and quantities of wine in metretai. It covers the months Epeiph and Mesore and then Thoth and Phaophi of year 16, and comes from the Arsinoite nome around 190 BC.
In English machine translation
Under these headings there has fallen […]
Epeiph, in bronze on which the exchange (agio) […]
Mesore, in bronze on which the exchange […] […]
Total, in bronze on which the exchange […]
of equal value (isonomon) […]
exchange 1132 […]
and in year 16, Thoth […]
of equal value, 6 talents 4 […] […]
Total […]
of which, of wine at 450 drachmas, metretai […]
remainder of wine, metretai […]717 1/3 1/12 […] […]
from which, for the report […]
of wine, metretai 747 1/3 1/12 […]
and in Phaophi, of wine 974 […]
Total of wine 1721 1/3 1/12 […]
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The apomoira was a Ptolemaic levy on vineyard and orchard produce. Bronze payments carried an exchange surcharge (allage) against silver, and 'isonomon' refers to bronze reckoned at par with silver. The opening line, literally 'into these have fallen', means the amounts entered under these headings. Some numerals are only partly legible. The opening line, literally 'into these have fallen', means the amounts entered under these headings.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Apomoira-Abrechnung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.